So the old one is going in for an MOT tomorrow before i stick it up for sale. Should pass ney bother.

Am i best off with ebay or the classifieds and what should i be asking? It doesn't owe me much.

2000 W reg 4.6 LPG in Alveston Red. Lighstone beige leather interior with red trim, red carpets. Interior good, wear in usual places.

Twin tailpipe stainless exhaust.

Good Rims.

Good tyres and new spare.

Clock says 240,000 but it had the engined changed many years back. So its done around 120k on engine.

Headlining great except for sunroof which is naff so i just leave it open.

Have all paperwork for the engine change and a stack about 3 inch high of receipts and service history going back to around 2003. absolute stacks.

Had all oils and filters and rear brakes done 6 months ago. 2 weeks ago had rear hub oil seal, track rod assembly and front pads done.

Bit of rust on front bonnet tip and lower tailgate

lol. this is sounding like an ad. im just after an idea of what i should be asking. £1200???

Sounds to me like you should be trying to flog it to your father in law for £3k......

I think it depends a lot of the colour, where it is and how you advertise it. You'll see some ads with crappy phone pictures taken at night and an ad full of speeling mistaks that still manage to fetch £2k. With a decently worded ad and some nice photos, a 2000 on LPG should be going for £2.5k and up. The colour is what people see first and if you are near to a railway station so someone can get to you easily that all helps.

Gilbertd wrote:

Sounds to me like you should be trying to flog it to your father in law for £3k......

I think it depends a lot of the colour, where it is and how you advertise it. You'll see some ads with crappy phone pictures taken at night and an ad full of speeling mistaks that still manage to fetch £2k. With a decently worded ad and some nice photos, a 2000 on LPG should be going for £2.5k and up. The colour is what people see first and if you are near to a railway station so someone can get to you easily that all helps.

lol Father in law stuck with his heap now as he'll never get close to what he paid for it.

I'm literally 2 mins walk from a train station. Never thought of that but it's a really good point to put in an ad.

It's certainly by no means a mint car so i couldn't ask 2.5k. Perhaps 1500 which leaves plenty of room for someone to spend cash on it if they so wish.

I thought about the exhaust and wondered if it's worth swapping it onto the new car? Quite a nice looking one with twin pipes either side.

Thanks

Railway station is more important than you might think. I bought a Merc for my partner and got a really good deal as it was on eBay with a location in darkest Wales miles from the nearest railway station. Didn't bother me because I just hired a trailer for the day and went and picked it up on that (cheaper than it would have cost in fuel to drive it back) but from what the seller was saying, the location had put a few people off.

If it isn't mint and needs a bit of work, you might as well swap a few bits over. As long as it has an exhaust on it (and you don't take the pictures showing the stainless one), nobody will expect to see anything other than a standard system. I still reckon if you put it on eBay with a start price of £1500 then you might be pleasantly surprised, decent ones, or at least ones that can be made decent with a bit of elbow grease rather than money, are going up in value.

Gilbertd wrote:

Railway station is more important than you might think. I bought a Merc for my partner and got a really good deal as it was on eBay with a location in darkest Wales miles from the nearest railway station. Didn't bother me because I just hired a trailer for the day and went and picked it up on that (cheaper than it would have cost in fuel to drive it back) but from what the seller was saying, the location had put a few people off.

If it isn't mint and needs a bit of work, you might as well swap a few bits over. As long as it has an exhaust on it (and you don't take the pictures showing the stainless one), nobody will expect to see anything other than a standard system. I still reckon if you put it on eBay with a start price of £1500 then you might be pleasantly surprised, decent ones, or at least ones that can be made decent with a bit of elbow grease rather than money, are going up in value.

Good advice. Watch this space and we'll see what happens.

I've been all over the country for cars. distance doesnt bother me. Just hop on the train. 9 times out of 10 youll get a bargain because everyone else is too lazy to go. lol

I have a box of spares in the garage and i don't know much about them. Reckon you might be able to tell me what they are? There's definately some lpg stuff, including full injector setup, lpg modules, a doughnut tank and perhaps some heater stuff.

Thanks

Partly off subject but I recently bought another Grand Voyager. I'm in Yorkshire, the seller was in Derby, I only went to view because my son was going to London that day so could drop me off en-route, and I could catch the train back if I didn't buy. I sussed the misfiring was due to the jetwashed plug leads (nice electo-storm display peaking under the partly closed bonnet), that it needed a drivers side front wheel bearing and that the heater zone control was stuck to defrost due to broken teeth on the heater box.. I paid half the asking price which was already half the going rate and nursed it home like that, next day had it all running perfectly because I already had the parts to chuck on it from another car lol.

Simon

Lpgc wrote:

Partly off subject but I recently bought another Grand Voyager. I'm in Yorkshire, the seller was in Derby, I only went to view because my son was going to London that day so could drop me off en-route, and I could catch the train back if I didn't buy. I sussed the misfiring was due to the jetwashed plug leads (nice electo-storm display peaking under the partly closed bonnet), that it needed a drivers side front wheel bearing and that the heater zone control was stuck to defrost due to broken teeth on the heater box.. I paid half the asking price which was already half the going rate and nursed it home like that, next day had it all running perfectly because I already had the parts to chuck on it from another car lol.

Simon

I bought the new vogue on a bit of a whim that i could sort the parasitic drain.

Turns out that it's a small leak from the eas block and it kept waking the BECM up all the time and draining the battery. The bloke thought it was something else and has just been draining and recharging the battery making it weaker to the point where running the abs pump on startup was draining 3v from the battery and only just being able to start the car. I'm waiting for the O ring from Landrover so i can fix the air leak. Until then, i just removed the EAS delay timer relay from under the passenger seat and replaced it with a standard 4 pin 30a relay. No more self level after you lock it up so no battery drain. New battery on car and hey presto. All's good. Just standard service stuff to do now.

One never know what attracts people in an add. Before I had mine and was still on the hunt I saw an add on the bay of a babyblue Gems on LPG in... Italy, close to Bari.
The add gave me just to few information about the state of the car but enough to make me curious. But hey, Italy.
Until the missus pointed me at Easy jet advertising with €45 one way to Bari and said 'let's make it a weekend', after all Amsterdam airport is 20 minutes away.
On we went, the RR appeared to be a heap of crap, the owner could very well be a member of the Corleone family and got threatening mad when we walked away.
But we had a good weekend in the sun.

Ferryman wrote:

But we had a good weekend in the sun.

The correct attitude to have!

I'm on a UK car forum and the amount of times I've read, "I wish you were nearer" as an excuse on For Sale threads is incredible. I mean, how big is the UK really?

Here, you don't work on distance, it sets up a false hope. You quickly learn to describe by time. As an example, when I bought mine, it was 13kms away from where I lived. It took between two and three hours either way every time I went over to the garage and deliver some paperwork, of which there was much.

I reckon I spent around 15 hours travelling, plus finally driving it home. The latter took four hours as they'd closed the busiest road in Manila, mid-morning on a Saturday, to do a spot of filming.

Anyone says to me, "How far", I answer in probable hours.

It stops people just dropping in!

Back from MOT. Failed. baaaayy.

Blow on exhaust right at the y branch of the 2 cat pipes which is buggering the emissions test. Can't get it off cause the rest of the pipe unions are rusted and will snap. Down to the magic exhaust man tomorrow to make new bits and sort it.

Also failed on wiper blade. lol.